Sleeping in bed..is it really that bad?

I am with Loki's mom. . .I don't let mine on the couch or bed because that is the cats spot. I had a previous greyhound that would "send out non-vocal warning signals" to the other greyhound and cats that thay were not allowed to come up on HER bed.  With these pups I really want the couch and bed to be places where the cats can feel save and get their share of love and attention because so much time is spent on the doggies.  In the motor home though, the couches are all theirs due to lack of space![]
 

Most dogs do fine, but I do have to say that many months ago  a greyhound was returned  to my rescue because he bit a little girl on the back of the head when she tried to climb up on the couch. They only had a him a few weeks and I really think they gave him too much too fast.  Poor boy was returned and didn't get another home for 6 more months. He was just re-adopted again this weekend so I am hoping all goes well and I am sure he will have "couch restrictions"!  

Both of my poodles sleep with me and my husband. I love it, but my husband isn't crazy about it. Any attempt to cuddle or kiss my husband results with both dogs wedged between us or in our faces. Shutting them out of our room doesn't help. They cry and scratch at the door. It's gotten so bad, we have to go out of town once in awhile to a motel to have a little quiet time together. 

ORIGINAL: chewbecca

Let me just say, Ella doesn't sleep in our bed because WE don't JUST sleep in our bed.[]

Neither do we, but we don't have as much modesty as you do, I guess.
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I have three ridgebacks and a pitbull and they all like to sleep in bed. I make the AmBull/Pit sleep in her crate (in bedroom) overnight though because the usual rotation on the bed is Milo, Nandi and in the wee hours, Yoshi. Yoshi downright harumphs if he comes to bed in the wee hours only to find his spot taken up by Ami (the pit). So for now, or until I go to king the situation stays this way.

My thought on dogs on furniture and bed is that it is fine as long as they remember it's yours and nobody comes to blows over it.

Paula

ORIGINAL: cynacam

Both of my poodles sleep with me and my husband. I love it, but my husband isn't crazy about it. Any attempt to cuddle or kiss my husband results with both dogs wedged between us or in our faces. Shutting them out of our room doesn't help. They cry and scratch at the door. It's gotten so bad, we have to go out of town once in awhile to a motel to have a little quiet time together. 

 
That is so funny, I am newly married (been married for 1 year)... and it really does put a damper on things!  Duke barks at us if we get to cuddly!

We have four dogs one sleep with me one sleep with my sister and two with my parents. the pit sleeps with me and if i have someone over and were hanging in my room the dog will lay on them, if there on "his half of the bed" its funny though cause if there on my half hes fine. 

While my dogs were puppies they were crate trained and taught to sleep there or around the house. Then, after they learned this, they slowly started moving to my bed. LOL. This way, if they have to sleep around the house for some reason, then they will be more comfortable with it verses if we raised them that way.

our dog sleeps with us. it has never been a problem, he started out on my pillow as a puppy, i felt safer with him there as we had a 150 lb  rottweiler at the time, and while she never would've hurt him on purpose, if he had snuggled up to her and she accidently rolled over in her sleep could've smothered him. since then he has accustomed himself to sleeping behind my knees, under the covers of course, he gets cold real easily. i've never really felt that this habit has had an effect on his discipline, he just likes to sleep in a warm bed with someone,just  as anyone else does. we even let him sleep with our 2 year old when he falls asleep in her bed.
 
when i first got together with my husband though, sharing the bed with him and his 150 lb rotty was a whole other story, i never got used to waking up with all four feet pushing in my back and right off the bed sometimes.although once she accepted me as a member of the household she started sleeping on the floor without us even doing anything about it. that was a situation where i was fine with allowing the dog to get used to me as i was pretty much an intruder in her home and relationship with her owner, at least im sure thats how she felt at first. if it had been me there before her though i dont think this would have been acceptable.

We have a rescued pom and he is not allowed to sleep in our bed because we have learned that whenever  he sleeps with me he becomes aggressive with everyone..I think its fair to say it depends on your dog.

We have two medium size dogs and when we only had one, she slept in bed  with us
but when we added the new one, it was just too much. Mocha is 53lbs of solid
muscle and was like a cement bag, Boo is 46 lbs but still....we were waking up
with leg cramps, my husband couldn't sleep because they both wanted to be right
next to him, and this is in a king size bed. So we fixed up a corner of the office, two
flat dog beds and two of the curved with sides to them. They have 1/4 of the room.
We let them lay on the bed with us until we get ready to go to sleep and in the morning they can come with us if one of us is able to sleep longer. It's so funny
because I'll go into the bedroom and they're both lying there next to my husband who's reading and I just clap my hands and go "time for bed kids" and Mocha will
kind of growl a little bit, not much, sort of like, "darn, I  thought she would forget"
but they both go in together and pick a bed and they are fine. Mocha is 3 and Boo
is 10 months.
Pam

Maisie sleeps with me in my bed..I failed at crate training[]...the only thing I don't like is sometimes she'll jump off at 2 in the morning and wake me up at 3 by barking, wanting me to play with her[:@]. Other than that...I think having your dog sleep with you is fine..

Hey, if you enjoy having your dog in bed with you, have at it.  I have enough trouble wrestling for space and covers with my DH!  I don't like dog hair all over my nice sheets anyway.  They have lovely comfy beds of their own in our room and I wouldn't dream of monopolizing their space on their bed. 
 
On a serious note, it has been shown that if your dog knows that it is your space, it doesn't matter a hill of beans whether they are in bed with you or not.  However, if your dog brings toys or treats on your bed and growls at your when you want space, get him off the bed.  He's beginning the think that it is his space, not yours. 

I think dogs sleeping in bed with you is fine.  When I got my doberman 3 years ago, he slept with us until he got to BIG.  Now I have Jake and he was sleeping with us until recently.  He has now gotten to big.  We have a king size bed and when my husband goes to work in the morning, both dogs get in bed with me.  I have no room.  I have also gotten really good at sleeping on the edge and not falling off. []  Both of my boys now sleep on the floor on their own dog beds until my husband leaves in the morning.

Jake - cane corso

 
No wonder you're crowded for room. I think you can get a farmstead exemption for a dog that will be as big as he will be.
 

Ron2,
Thanks for the reply.  That was great.  I needed a laugh. [sm=rofl.gif]